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In 2011, the Queen became the first British monarch to set foot in the Republic of Ireland since it gained independence. The visit was epitomised by her address to a state banquet, in Dublin, which she began in Irish. Commentators at the time saId it was a formative moment in history. Bertie Ahern as served as Taoiseach - the Irish prime minister - from 1997 to 2008. He told Paul Henley more about his recollections of that visit. (Photo: Queen Elizabeth II leaving the Garden of Remembrance with Irish President Mary McAleese and walking past the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Credit: Frank McGrath/Independent News and Media/Getty Images)
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